Medusa Labs Functional Testing

Functional testing is designed to evaluate the core of the product through intensive, device-specific tests designed and engineered by Medusa Labs. Functional testing focuses on the device itself and the device's interactions with industry-standard environments. This phase of testing will verify robustness in the engineering design and includes low-level testing of all key features and attributes. Our engineers will execute a matrix of tests designed to uncover potential problems with the specific bus interface (e.g., lockups, hangs, incompatibilities, data corruption) and will provide analysis of low-level performance and bandwidth characteristics of the device. Basic compatibility and interoperability will be verified through the use of industry-standard devices, platforms, and architectures with some of the most rigorous test tools and techniques available in the industry.



Below is a summary of what you can expect us to do during a functional test.

Chipset Interaction and Basic Performance

The device will be tested to the full bandwidth of its capabilities for read and write transfers using utilities that bypass operating system overhead and issue I/Os directly to the device driver level.

Testing will be performed on every slot available to ensure signal integrity and bus compliance with devices such as peer buses and PCI bridges.

Device / Bus Master Interaction

The device will be tested under several different, full bus PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E loads using industry-standard PCI master devices. Different combinations of Fibre Channel network, SCSI, RAID, and video cards will be tested in combination with the device. All bus devices in these tests will be run at varying I/O loads from nominal to full bandwidth.

Multiple instances of the device (up to the vendor's maximum specification) will be tested under full bus loads in several different configurations, including split peer and bridge buses, to evaluate the device's performance scaling and functionality.

Low-Level Functional Tests

The product can be evaluated for its compliance to relevant specifications.

Devices will be tested for interrupt sharing and resource usage.

Utilities, diagnostics, and flash features will be verified to work in all slots and interfaces.



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